Manchester Blog

I fell in love with Manchester when I came for my University admissions interview. It had been exciting to travel up by train from the farthest reaches of East Anglia, well Peterborough anyway. I’d heard all the stories about how Manchester had a permanent black cloud tethered to it by a large and grime-ridden piece [...]

I left Manchester by train from Piccadilly station in the early morning yesterday. I’d got the tram in from Bowker Vale (on the Bury line) and I’d seen thousands of Rangers supporters in Piccadilly Gardens, with at least one enormous screen, as I passed. I arrived back at Piccadilly about 9pm to an enormous crowd [...]

The Royal Northern College of Music fairly shook with the loud cheers and applause as we finished our final performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe on Saturday night. We’d struggled to sell tickets again this year. And that’s despite a pretty high standard, semi-pro orchestra, great RNCM bar and a fun time for all! The [...]